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“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”

—Matthew 5:6

We long to be satisfied. Growing up, I remember saying, “I don’t know what I want to be; I just want to be happy.”

But we’re usually quite bad at knowing what will truly make us happy, and many of us spend years chasing one thing after another grasping for it.

If we could change that statement to, “I don’t know what I want to be; I only want to be righteous,” our satisfaction and success would be guaranteed.

To seek happiness itself might lead to all sorts of selfishness and debauchery. If we all sought righteousness, we would not only be reaching out to the source of satisfaction and good but helping ensure the satisfaction and good of others.

Righteousness leads to placing others’ needs above our own. It keeps us from oppressing the weak and compels us to help them instead.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is to hunger and thirst after God. He tells us over and over that he will satisfy (Psalm 73:25–26), provide for (Psalm 81:10), protect (Deuteronomy 3:22), and give us more than we need so that we can also reveal his goodness and satisfaction to others (Luke 6:38).

If we all hungered and thirsted for righteousness the way many of us hunger and thirst for happiness, think of the satisfaction that would spread like a wildfire throughout the world! True joy would be the byproduct.

Our souls would be satisfied in watching God’s plan and purpose come to fruition in our own lives and the lives of those around us.

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